Beijing Capital International Airport is one of the two main international airports serving Beijing, alongside Beijing Daxing International Airport. It is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Beijing’s city center, in an exclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that exclave in suburban Shunyi District. The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. The airport’s IATA Airport code, PEK, is based on the city’s former romanized name, Peking.
Beijing Capital International Airport (China)
Aeropuerto Internacional de Pekín-Capital (China)
It had become the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2009. It has been the world’s second busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic since 2010. The airport registered 557,167 aircraft movements (take-offs and landings), ranking 6th in the world in 2012. In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has also witnessed rapid growth. By 2012, the airport had become the 13th busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic, registering 1,787,027 tons.
Flughafen Peking-Hauptstadt (China)
北京首都国际机场 (中国)
مطار العاصمة بكين الدولي (الصين)
Aéroport International de Pékin-Capitale (Chine)
Beijing Airport was opened on 1 March 1958. The airport then consisted of one small terminal building, apparently for the use of VIPs and charter flights, along with a single 2,500-metre runway on the east which was extended to 3,200 metres in 1966 and 3,800 metres in 1982 respectively. Another 3,200-meter runway on the west was completed in October 1978. On 1 January 1980, a newer, larger Terminal 1 – green in color – opened, with docks for 10 to 12 aircraft. The terminal was larger than the one built in the 1950s, but by the mid-1990s, its size became relatively inadequate.
Международный аэропорт Пеки́н Шоуду́ (Китай)
Pekin Başkent Uluslararası Havalimanı (Çin)
बेइजिंग कैपिटल अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय विमानक्षेत्र (चीन)
The first International flight to China and Beijing Capital International Airport was of Pakistan International Airlines from Islamabad. In late 1999, to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the airport experienced a new round of expansion as Terminal 2 opened on 1 November of that year. Terminal 1 was then temporarily closed for renovation after the opening of Terminal 2. 20 September 2004 saw the opening of a renovated Terminal 1, which at that time solely handled China Southern Airlines’ domestic and international flights from Beijing. Other airlines’ domestic and international flights still operated in Terminal 2.
Another round of expansion started in 2007. A third runway opened on 29 October 2007, to relieve congestion on the other two runways. Terminal 3 (T3) was completed in February 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics.
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